Don McLean - Vincent (starry starry night)

Vincent





Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

Don McLean

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Don McLean, (nació el 2 de octubre de 1945 en New Rochelle, Nueva York) es un cantautor estadounidense, principalmente famoso por su balada de 1971 "American Pie", sobre un acontecimiento que se conoce como El día en que murió la música y se basa en la muerte de Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens y Big Booper en un accidente aéreo. Este tema que en 2001 fue versionado por Madonna en su disco "Music".

Un poema sobre McLean, "Killing Me Softly With His Blues" de Lori Lieberman, se convirtió en una canción llamada "Killing Me Softly" por Charles Fox y Norman Gimbel. Lieberman fue el primero en grabarla (1971), aunque la canción alcanzaría su mayor éxito por los diferentes covers que se hicieron. Uno de los principales fue en 1973 con la voz de Roberta Flack y casí un cuarto de siglo más tarde, en 1996, otra versión de The Fugees la volvió a lanzar a la fama.

En 1981, McLean llegó al lugar número uno internacional con el clásico de Roy Orbison "Crying". El mismo Orbison describió, en una oportunidad, a McLean como "la voz del siglo", y una futura regrabación del tema vio como Roy Orbison incorporaba elementos de la versión de McLean.

Curiosamente la banda estadounidense de punk rock NOFX en su álbum "45 Or 46 Songs That Werent Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records" realizo una version a su estilo de la canción "Vincent".

Discografía [editar]

• Tapestry (1970)
• American Pie (1971)
• Don McLean (1972)
• Playin' Favorites (1973)
• Homeless Brother (1974)
• Solo (1976) (directo)
• Prime Time (1977)
• Chain Lightning (1978)
• Believers (1981)
• Dominion (1982) (directo)
• For The Memories I & II (1986-7)
• Love Tracks (1987)
• Headroom (1990)
• Favourites and Rarities (1993)
• River of Love (1995)
• Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins (2001)
• Starry Starry Night (2001) (directo)
• You've Got To Share (2003) ("The Kid's Album")
• The Western Album (2003)
• Christmastime! (2004)
• Rearview Mirror (2005)